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“Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.”

Benito Mussolini, 1935, The Doctrine of Fascism, Firenze:Vallecchi Editore. (p.15)

https://politicalresearch.org/2005/01/12/mussolini-corporate-state

The lack of a socialist movement creates the conditions for fascism.

Socialism or barbarism.

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Neo-Colonialism—In Neo-Colonialism: the Last Stage of Imperialism Kwame Nkrumah explains:

“Neo-colonialism is based upon the principle of breaking up former large united colonial territories into a number of small non-viable States which are incapable of independent development and must rely upon the former imperial power for defense and even internal security.

Their economic and financial systems are linked, as in colonial days, with those of the former colonial ruler.”

Night-Visions: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain explains:

“The previous capitalist world order was bipolar, with everyone visible massed around opposing poles of oppressor vs. oppressed. It was colonized vs. colonizer, white vs. black, invader vs. indigenous.

The growing chaos of the neo-colonial world order is that many different peoples—armed with conflicting capitalist agendas—have been loosed to fight it out… Trans-national capitalism is driving a certain kind of breakthrough idea, a “multicultural” worldview in which each people and grouping is freed and encouraged to explore its own capitalist agenda no matter what form it takes…Everyone is free to go for it, free to fight it out any way they want so long as they don’t endanger the system itself.”

In this context, neocolonialism describes the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperialism that absorbs and capitalizes on the emergence of new politics and identities.

Subgroups are assimilated into kapitalism and bonded to imperialist interests, all for the purpose of maintaining material colonial domination.” (ibid).

Romania and Bulgaria are neo-colonial states of late stage capitalism.

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